On May 13th and 14th, Foojay attended the JCON conference in Köln, Germany, where we did over 30 live-stream interviews. In this episode, we present to you the first set of these interviews, in which we focus on celebrating 30 years of Java, how you can grow your career, become a public speaker and writer, make your code more green, a bit of AI (of course...), and how the connections between open-source contributors can be visualized.

00:00 Introduction
00:37 Richard Fichtner: About JCON
   https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardfichtner/
   https://jcon.one/
03:27 Bruno Souza: Building your career
   https://www.linkedin.com/in/brjavaman/
   https://careermasterplan.dev
17:09 Markus Westergren: Mentoring and growing to become a senior engineer
   https://www.linkedin.com/in/markuswestergren/
21:56 Brian Vermeer: Public speaking, NLJUG, the importance of writing
   https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianvermeer/
30:08 Aicha Laafia: Green coding
   https://www.linkedin.com/in/aicha-laafia-0266a6126/
36:33 Baruch Sadogursky: History of Java, job changes because of AI
   https://www.linkedin.com/in/jbaruch/
44:40 Dmitry Yanter: Connections in open-source projects
   https://www.linkedin.com/in/dmitry-yanter/
53:43 Conclusion